I am hoping in F11 we can get the artwork into the Beta release. With each release we’ve been getting them in earlier and earlier in the cycle; I think getting them in by Beta is really our ultimate goal though, because we really need these bug reports.

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Máirín is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape. You can read more from Máirín on her blog at blog.linuxgrrl.com.

Don’t let the negative feedback get to you – I just installed Fedora 1 Snapshot 3 and I find the new background beautiful (although it is second in my eyes to the heights of “Flying High”, but this is a purely subjective matter of taste) – and this is from a person who *really* liked the original “pre-blue” Gears submission as it was finally a move away from blue (and the original mock-up was made of awesome).

I also love the work being done on the Nodoka Theme – it did take a release or two to come of age, but it is now polished. The Echo Icon theme, while there is loads of criticism of it, I do like it and enabling it is one of my first configuration changes in stock Fedora.

In short, we may be silent, but there are many many of us who really appreciate the art theme and what it does.

I have to admit I’m not always happy with the voting results … I really liked your gears theme this time around … but what other choice do you have when multiple folks are excited enough to put effort into multiple themes?

Does any other distro have such an active and talented artwork team? OK, maybe you can’t push everything upstream, but Fedora does well more than its share. Some of those comments sound to me like sour grapes.

Keep doing what you do so well, and be proud of it. You deserve to be.